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Of henderson and las vegas. >> the plant was pretty close to a mountain range. and when the pressure waves went out, it rebounded off the mountain and came back with even more force. >> nearly everybody you talked to, no matter where they were at in las vegas, felt a tremendous hit. we realized that this was a serious, huge disaster. as you can see the damage, it really began to hit home. >> dennis todd watches from the mountaintop in disbelief. >> i was not ready for the mother lode explosion when it came. it looked like nothing that i had ever seen before. >> the explosion kills two people, ...

Shook my apartment so much that my light fixtures were swinging. it blew the vents out of my bathroom and there was debris on the floor. >> this thing comes into the atmosphere and it builds up a pressure wave in front of it because the air cannot move out of the way. >> it came into the shallow angle and so as it was exploding, pressure waves were coming down onto the buildings below. it's about 20 times the explosive energy of the hiroshima and nagasaki bombs of world war ii. >> security video from the local judo class captured the moment the shock wave hit. >> there's a moment in which the ...

Any would we expect to see? >> well, in that part of the world off the coast of vietnam, we don't have that many stations, and i'm not sure whether we'd be able to record signals seismically, we might, but it might be on one or two stations. we're more likely to see the impact of an airplane into the sea on hydroacoustic arrays, basically cables that run on the ocean bottom and can measure pressure waves in the ocean or on infrasound, when you have an explosion it produced a wave in the atmosphere that can be recorded. we don't have that data available to us. but from looking at just the seism...

Increasingly tense situation. but let's begin right now with a rare report from inside the syrian capital. fred pleitgen is the only western journalist right now, he spoke excsively with the country's deputy foreign minister. fred, what are you seeing and hearing in damascus right now? >> reporter: well, the syrian regime is absolutely angry at what happened, and i can tell you, it was a massive blow right into the heart of this country's military power base. we basically felt this in the middle of the night as all of a sudden these massive explosions started going off and it was several big e...

Catch this one on tape, the russian citizens. >> well, in fact, the way we really ought to classify this is more like a small asteroid than it is a meteorite. this is an object that seems to come from the asteroid belt. so it is actually on the large side for something that we would see, although not really that large for an asteroid itself, even a small asteroid. but it's the interaction with the earth's atmosphere, what it could possibly do if it strikes the surface of the earth. what it did just passing through territory's atmosphere that really makes the difference. >> hakeem, address the ...